Representations 1,2 and 3 all give an idea of how the Nazis were so effective in controlling Germany in the years 1933-1939. Representation one is a Nazi propaganda poster created to gain support from the German population.

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Jamila Hussen

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History Coursework Part 3.

Part B (ii): Analyse and evaluate representations of history.

Representations 1,2 and 3 all give an idea of how the Nazis were so effective in controlling Germany in the years 1933-1939, despite them being individual and published in the past and present-or for example when representation 1 was published it was formatted as: present, future, future, representation 2: Present, past, past, and representation 3: present, past, future. The representations have different source types; representation one and three as primary sources because they are now being used by historians to analyse the Nazis and representation three is secondary because it is using the events of the past to give a summary, they are all effective in their own individual ways, depending on what the reader wants to discover or understand. The best representation however, needs to hold characteristics which show that it is impartial to a high degree, and something that essentially edifies people in a way which they will feel satisfied due to the knowledge or understanding gained as a result of studying the given representation.

Representation one is a Nazi propaganda poster created to gain support from the German population. The poster to some degree, shows us perhaps one of the most effective way the Nazis gained the backing of the German people, however, it is just one method used amongst several which all counted towards the Nazis winning seats and as a result, winning power. The poster is a primary source, and it does behold quite a lot of truth or accuracy because it was created by the Nazi Party as their manifesto so as a result, the poster is subjective and it has to be, because it was supposed to be helping Hitler’s party support-and this is found in any party trying to win an election. The poster alone individually acted towards convincing the German population that the Nazi’s manifesto was perhaps rational; as aforementioned, it acted towards a bigger picture. The Nazis used different methods, such as propaganda and this was transmitted through posters, radio, news, book et cetera, so perhaps you could count propaganda as one part (fused by the above methods) as opposed to individually saying objects such as posters alone, acted towards the Nazi’s triumph because they also used threat and the poor economy to convince voters that they were the right party to essentially ‘amend’ the country which was failed by previous leaders. Perhaps you could say that the representation was effective, yet it was just one part of propaganda and one part of a collection of procedures which acted towards the Nazi’s victory.

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Representation 2 is by Ben Walsh, a historian. It is part of school textbook he published. The extract beholds a comprehensive review of the methods the Nazis used to gain the support of the German population-Walsh essentially blames the German people of being gullible and irrational, however, Walsh does not conclude before he gives different viewpoints. The representation is used to edify secondary school students, who are studying history; it gives a very basic explanation of the methods used by the Nazis and how Hitler and his men triumphed. The representation you could say, is objective because it gives a ...

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